I'm so glad someone said this! I had two stories open in tabs recently for maybe three/four weeks, involving between one and three reloads per day. At some point I closed one of them and didn't even get around to reading it properly — or commenting — even though it wasn't bad at all. I just lost interest. The other one I left a comment on three or four days after I finally got around to reading it. I don't even want to know what that did to those stories' hit counts.